About This Publication

Governments at all levels all over the world are committed to strengthening communities – that is, improving neighbourliness, mutual support and economic activity in the largest cities and the smallest rural settlements.

In this book, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners demonstrate, in a wide variety of settings, how they have developed new initiatives to strengthen communities, concentrating particularly on the role of education and training.

Contents

Chapter 1

Connecting research policy and practice in
building stronger communities
Lesley Doyle and Peter Welsh

Part 1:

An international/national perspective

Chapter 2

Lifelong learning and the learning society:
from concept to policy to practice?
Hans Schuetze

Chapter 3

Social networks and social exclusion: the case
of biotechnology in New Zealand
Rob Strathdee